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The Condottieri As the renaissence scholars amongst you will know the Condottieri were mercenary soldiers contracted and paid to fight for the Papacy or their Italian City State employers; Florence, Vience etc. Freelance Professional Soldiers. We encountered exactly that on […]

Music for winding down and pondering on a Sunday afternoon… Elbow: The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver World Party: Santa Barbara Villagers: I Saw the Dead Nick Drake: Man in a Shed Elbow: Scattered Black and Whites Miserable Rich: […]

MALDOROR The 16mm projector has been shut down, its whirring has ceased. The lights have gone up and the chairs stacked away. The Studio is an empty room again, a blank canvas. But for two hours on Saturday night it […]

Attitudes to Art…. Just a tad different to ours in Sweden. The first thing we noticed was the entrance fee to SUPERMARKET – 100SEK or 150SEK with a catalogue ( roughly £9.60 / £14.41 ) I know from experience of […]

CARDS My latest project features hand-made letterpress pieces, each accompanied by a stack of business-card-sized works, which are free for the visitor to my show to take home with them. I could go into detail about the process, but as […]

360 degree King Edward A new idea… this one developed forth from a previous idea which couldn’t be realised. Orginally I was very interested in creating a 360 degree (where is the degree symbol on a keyboard?)photographic study of a […]

Family day out today joined by stepgrandaughter and her mum and dad, their dog and our dog. I am trying to take better photos whether ‘snapshots’ on days like these or documentation photos of work and/or projects. So, having finally […]

The catalogue committee is meeting up tomorrow afternoon to continue the development of our shiny catalogue and we need to have: 1.)a quote or phrase 30 words or less 2.)a photo of work for a postcard that will be included […]

A photocollage of my studio space, as of February 2012.

The research report New Model Visual Arts Institutions and Social Engagement is now on-line! You can read it/ download it from here: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/schools/school_of_social_work/research/pru/files/wzw_nmi_report.pdf This study asks how socially engaged visual arts practice can change individuals and communities – or put […]

Queens Visit I have three weeks to write a proposal for one of the Factory Nights commissions. My problem can be that I have too many ideas and find it difficult to decide on one. My initial idea I had […]

I did an artists talk thingy this morning. I’ve only ever done that sort of thing to my fellow students before, so it was a bit daunting. I wasn’t the only speaker, there were 4 of us, from 3 different […]

I began at M. Cezanne, such vitality. http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/paul-cezanne-landscape-with-poplars I picture him restless behind the walls of that big house, outside his brush dashes across the canvas, evidence of the palette knife, just enough to know it is a roof. And […]

It’s been an extremely busy month on the production side for the objects…both cubes and ceramics. At the same time I have been working on my contextualisation for the positioning of the works. Welcome to MOSE (the Museum of Space […]

Tonight I’m working on my placement report for my MA. Out of all the pieces of work I have to complete for my course in the next three months this one is the snake in the grass – the one […]

I had no idea it had been so long. Fifteen days. Far too little work is getting done round here. I am up to my ears in admin. for things and facilitating everyone else as usual. If I could only […]

Just watched the Jeremy Deller Culture Show programme and feel really bad – what a lovely bloke – what interesting work – I had never realised. The press portrayal of his work never seems very interesting and in the past […]

My plan for today was to do some work on my dissertation… but I got distracted with my computer and the discovery that the last few stop motion animation videos resulted in 15gb being taken up (agh!) so the dissertation […]